CIA, FBI Go Online in Terror Fight

The CIA and FBI are launching a program to help solve the shortage of linguists in Arabic and other languages, which U.S. officials say has become a crisis in the fight against terrorism. They are going online and creating a virtual network of bilingual university students, professors and other language experts.

When the National Virtual Translation Center starts operations Dec. 1, it will initiate an unusual and perhaps risky plan: hiring individual language speakers around the U.S. who haven't worked in government to translate...